Art competitions were held as part of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Medals were awarded in five categories (architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture), for works inspired by sport-related themes. [1]
The art exhibition was held in a hall of the Berlin Exhibition from 15 July to 16 August, and displayed 667 works of art from 22 countries. Additionally, the literature competition attracted 40 entries from 12 countries, and the music competition had 33 entries from 9 countries. [2]
The art competitions at the 1936 Games were similar to the 1928 and 1932 Games, with medals being awarded in multiple subcategories for each of the five artistic categories. [3] The judges declined to award any medals for three subcategories, and no gold medals for another three subcategories. Art competitions were part of the Olympic program from 1912 to 1948. [4] At a meeting of the International Olympic Committee in 1949, it was decided to hold art exhibitions instead, as it was judged illogical to permit professionals to compete in the art competitions but only amateurs were permitted to compete in sporting events. [5] Since 1952, a non-competitive art and cultural festival has been associated with each Games. [6]
Category | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Architectural design | ![]() Skiing Stadium | ![]() Reich Sport Field | ![]() Sporting Centre in Vienna |
Municipal planning | ![]() Reich Sport Field | ![]() Marine Park, Brooklyn | ![]() Municipal Planning and Sporting Centre in Cologne |
Category | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Lyric works | ![]() "The Runner" | ![]() "Profili Azzurri" | ![]() "The Discus" |
Dramatic works | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded |
Epic works | ![]() "Avoveteen" | ![]() "For the Top of the World" | ![]() "Dysk Olimpijski" |
Category | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Solo and chorus | ![]() "Olympic Vow" | ![]() "Olympic Cantata, 1936" | ![]() "The Runner" |
Instrumental | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded |
Orchestra | ![]() "Olympic Festive Music" | ![]() "The Victor" | ![]() "Mountain Suite" |
Category | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Paintings | none awarded | ![]() "Runners at the Finishing Line" | ![]() "Ice Hockey" |
Drawings and water colours | none awarded | ![]() "Four Sketches for Frescoes" | ![]() "Classical Horse Racing in Japan" |
Graphic art | none awarded | none awarded | none awarded |
Commercial graphic art | ![]() "Arosa I Placard" | ![]() "“International Automobile Race on the Avus" | ![]() "Yachting Club Certificate" |
Category | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Statues | ![]() "Sulky Driver" | ![]() "Decathlon Athlete" | ![]() "Wrestling Youths" |
Reliefs | ![]() "Hurdlers" | ![]() "Ball" | none awarded |
Medals | none awarded | ![]() "Medals" | ![]() "Equestrian Medals" |
At the time, medals were awarded to these artists, but art competitions are no longer regarded as official Olympic events by the International Olympic Committee. These events do not appear in the IOC medal database, [7] and these totals are not included in the IOC's medal table for the 1936 Games. [8]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
9 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (11 entries) | 9 | 12 | 11 | 32 |
Hitler wanted to add a further selection of artistic events that he believed would glorify the Nazis to the programme of the 1936 Games, including dance. The International Olympic Committee declined to approve any of the events, though dance had been among the original planned art events when they were first introduced. Still, dance was included as an unofficial art event at the 1936 Games, known as the Internationale Tanzwettspiele. [9] [10] Fourteen nations took part, and a festival with choreography and performance by Harald Kreutzberg and Mary Wigman was held. Rudolf von Laban had also been contracted to contribute, but his choreography was not deemed to be suitable propaganda and he was placed under house arrest. Kreutzberg and Wigman then also took part in the competitive part of the dance event, being among the (honorary) medalists. [9] [11]
Designs for Town Planning
The following architects took part: [12]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Werner March, Walter March | ![]() |
2 | Charles Downing Lay | ![]() |
3 | Theodor Nußbaum | ![]() |
AC | Erwin Ilz, Hans Pfann | ![]() |
AC | Franz Peydl, Josef Schilhab | ![]() |
Architectural designs
The following architects took part: [13]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Hermann Kutschera | ![]() |
2 | Werner March | ![]() |
3 | Herbert Kastinger, Hermann Stiegholzer | ![]() |
AC | Costantino Costantini | ![]() |
AC | Johann Rezac | ![]() |
Further entries
The following architects took part: [14]
Epic works
The following writers took part: [15]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Urho Karhumäki | ![]() |
2 | Wilhelm Ehmer | ![]() |
3 | Jan Parandowski | ![]() |
Lyric works
The following writers took part: [16]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Felix Dhünen | ![]() |
2 | Bruno Fattori | ![]() |
3 | Hans Helmut Stoiber | ![]() |
Unknown event
The following writers took part: [17]
Rank | Name | Country |
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AC | Anne Lindbergh | ![]() |
AC | Klára Marik | ![]() |
AC | Lina Galli | ![]() |
AC | Jerry | ![]() |
AC | Alexander Roda Roda | ![]() |
AC | Alba de Céspedes | ![]() |
AC | Alexander Lernet-Holenia | ![]() |
AC | Avery Brundage | ![]() |
AC | Ernst Udet | ![]() |
AC | Eugenio Barisoni | ![]() |
AC | Francis Magoun | ![]() |
AC | Franco Ciampitti | ![]() |
Rank | Name | Country |
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AC | Fred Jent | ![]() |
AC | Hans Domizlaff | ![]() |
AC | Hans Schöchlin | ![]() |
AC | Heinrich Rienössl | ![]() |
AC | Hans Naderer | ![]() |
AC | Hermann Stowasser | ![]() |
AC | Jack Schumacher | ![]() |
AC | László Tharnói-Kostyál | ![]() |
AC | Lino Businco | ![]() |
AC | Louis Grivel | ![]() |
AC | Hubertus von Beyer | ![]() |
AC | MacKinlay Kantor | ![]() |
Rank | Name | Country |
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AC | Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth | ![]() |
AC | Ottó Misángyi | ![]() |
AC | Paul Dresse | ![]() |
AC | Paul Martin | ![]() |
AC | Richard Augsten | ![]() |
AC | Rudolf von Eichthal | ![]() |
AC | Takis Sakellariou | ![]() |
AC | Teofil Marschalkó [18] | ![]() |
AC | Theodor Mayer | ![]() |
AC | Theron Newell | ![]() |
AC | Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt | ![]() |
Compositions for orchestra
The following composers took part: [19]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Werner Egk | ![]() |
2 | Lino Liviabella | ![]() |
3 | Jaroslav Křička | ![]() |
HM | Jiang Wen-Ye | ![]() |
HM | Gian Luca Tocchi | ![]() |
AC | Marius Monnikendam | ![]() |
AC | Alexander Langeweg | ![]() |
AC | Marc-César Scotto | ![]() |
AC | Robert Sanders | ![]() |
AC | Roy Harris | ![]() |
AC | Quincy Porter | ![]() |
Compositions for solo or chorus
The following composers took part: [20]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Paul Höffer | ![]() |
2 | Kurt Thomas | ![]() |
3 | Harald Genzmer | ![]() |
Instrumental and chamber
The following composers took part: [21]
Rank | Name | Country |
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AC | Gabriele Bianchi | ![]() |
Unknown event
The following composers took part: [22]
Rank | Name | Country |
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AC | Chiffre | ![]() |
AC | Noboru Ito | ![]() |
AC | Dante D'Ambrosi | ![]() |
AC | Demetrij Žebre | ![]() |
AC | František Koubek | ![]() |
AC | Hans Luckasch | ![]() |
AC | Heinrich Schmidt | ![]() |
AC | Herbert Wieninger | ![]() |
AC | Jan Pešta | ![]() |
AC | Karl Etti | ![]() |
AC | Karl Pilß | ![]() |
AC | Kosaku Yamada | ![]() |
AC | Ludwig Miller | ![]() |
AC | Renzo Massarani | ![]() |
AC | Saburo Moroi | ![]() |
AC | Shukichi Mitsukuri | ![]() |
AC | Norbert Sprongl | ![]() |
AC | Jaroslav Křička | ![]() |
Drawings and water colours
The following painters took part: [23]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Not awarded | |
2 | Romano Dazzi | ![]() |
3 | Sujaku Suzuki | ![]() |
AC | Jean Jacoby | ![]() |
AC | Rūdolfs Mazūrs | ![]() |
AC | Désiré Piryns | ![]() |
AC | Georg Lagerstedt | ![]() |
AC | Robert Lips | ![]() |
Graphic arts
The following painters took part: [24]
Rank | Name | Country |
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AC | Robert Lips | ![]() |
AC | Jean Jacoby | ![]() |
Paintings
The following painters took part: [25]
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Unknown event
The following painters took part: [26]
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Applied arts
The following painters took part: [27]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Alex Walter Diggelmann | ![]() |
2 | Alfred Hierl | ![]() |
3 | Stanisław Ostoja-Chrostowski | ![]() |
AC | Maria Jacoby | ![]() |
AC | Lucjan Kintopf | ![]() |
AC | Ernst Böhm | ![]() |
AC | Julius Engelhard | ![]() |
AC | Ludwig Hohlwein | ![]() |
AC | Dora Corty-Mönkemeyer | ![]() |
AC | Eduard Sauer | ![]() |
AC | Hartmuth Pfeil | ![]() |
AC | Jobst Kuch | ![]() |
AC | Paul Sinkwitz | ![]() |
AC | Robert Lips | ![]() |
AC | Alois Houba | ![]() |
AC | William Welsh | ![]() |
Medals
The following sculptors took part: [28]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Not awarded | |
2 | Luciano Mercante | ![]() |
3 | Josuë Dupon | ![]() |
AC | Günther von Scheven | ![]() |
AC | Omero Taddeini | ![]() |
AC | Edward Hald | ![]() |
AC | Otto Placzek | ![]() |
AC | Pietro Borsari | ![]() |
AC | Mario Moschi | ![]() |
AC | Tait McKenzie | ![]() |
AC | Simon Gate | ![]() |
AC | Victor Demanet | ![]() |
AC | Vicke Lindstrand | ![]() |
AC | Joseph Witterwulghe | ![]() |
AC | Hermann Wandinger | ![]() |
AC | Harold Winter | ![]() |
AC | Ludwig Kunstmann | ![]() |
AC | Publio Morbiducci | ![]() |
Reliefs
The following sculptors took part: [29]
Rank | Name | Country |
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1 | Emil Sutor | ![]() |
2 | Józef Klukowski | ![]() |
3 | Not awarded | |
AC | Otto Rost | ![]() |
AC | Roberto Terracini | ![]() |
AC | Robert Frank | ![]() |
Statues
The following sculptors took part: [30]
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Unknown event
The following sculptors took part: [31]
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